State v. Crescenzo

In November 1968, the Providence County Grand Jury returned an indictment that charged the defendant with embezzling, during an 18-month period, $35,000 of funds belonging to her employer, a Providence law firm. Four years later, in December 1972, a Superior Court jury, after listening to some 8 days of testimony, returned a guilty verdict. Subsequently, the trial justice denied the defendant’s motion for a new trial and imposed a 2-year sentence which was to be served at the Women’s Beformatory. Before us she has, through her appellate counsel, raised a variety of issues, some of which…